McDormand in Flux

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Joining Aeon Flux movie.

By Brian Linder

We recently learned that actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) had joined Paramount's Aeon Flux, playing the sister of Charlize Theron's Aeon. Today's Variety has an additional report on McDormand's casting and refers to her character as "the Handler" and the "leader of the rebellion." There's no mention of her relationship to Aeon, so there may or may not have been a change in the story.

The script was written by Phil Hay (crazy/beautiful) and Matt Manfredi (The Tuxedo), with a polish by director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight). The story, as Variety describes it, is "set 1,000 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the population save for one city. The acrobatic title character is the top operative in an underground rebellion, but when sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, she uncovers a secret making her question if she's on the right side." The original series was created by Peter Cheung and it first aired on MTV in 1995.

Shooting is expected to get underway in Berlin this August, and we hear the studio is hoping for a Spring 2005 release.

Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla is producing the project along with Lakeshore Entertainment and MTV Films David Gale and Greg Goodman.

If the film performs at the box office, Paramount may launch a Aeon Flux franchise.